Verizon Wireless Brings EV-DO To Vegas

Chamiltor said:
Why would you waste money on a protocol that takes away bandwidth from your voice services when there is one available that is fully retroactive and utilizes bandwidth for both data and voice?

Too much of an infrastructure cost to Verizon, perhaps? It seems like the logical choice but it would take too long to roll out and they really needed something to combat EDGE (even though EDGE isn't that amazingly speedy, it still kicks 1X's ass).

Chamiltor said:
Why would you waste money on a protocol that takes away bandwidth from your voice services when there is one available ...

Because EV-DV is not available yet. That's why Sprint, which was holding out for EV-DV for years, finally caved and has started deploying EV-DO. If they waited for EV-DV, they wouldn't be able to launch until well into 2006, giving Verizon a huge lead.

EV-DO is not perfect. But it's available now, and it works.

the second release of EV-DO supports low latency applications. Thus voice over IP may (and only may) be a possibility in future. It may be a possibility already for all i know.

EV-DV support is wanning as well. EV-DO got a nice boost becaue it was widely deployed in south korea then japan. i have not heard of similar support for EV-DV and the koreans are throwing their money into Wi-Bro.

The real question here is what happens after ev-do or ev-dv? Theoretically, qualcomm is supposed to go with 3X (combine multiple channels) but i don't know that that will stick. We shall see soon enough.

very true.. however that's why verizon wireless isn't launching EV-DO until it has the extra spectrum for it to carry both broadband users and voice.. EV-DV would be nice, we'll see where this goes eh! 🤣